133 Ohio App. 3d 618 - State v. Pettis’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2025
11 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Kelly v. Robinson · Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare v. Davenport · Pellegrino v. Division of Criminal Justice (In Re Pellegrino) · 75 Ohio App. 3d 793 - State v. Wainwright · 15 Ohio App. 3d 33 - City of Willowick v. Langford
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n offender is not finally discharged until he has served any sentence previously imposed by the court”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. J.L. · State v. Gainey“[A] first offender may apply to the sentencing court if convicted in this state * • * * for the sealing of the conviction record. Application may be made at the expiration of three years after the offender’s final discharge if convicted of a felony, or at the expiration of one year after the offender’s final discharge if convicted of a misdemeanor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re White“to protect its citizens by enforcing its criminal statutes and to rehabilitate an offender by imposing a criminal sanction intended for that purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. S.R.
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.